NDT Advance Access published online on December 4, 2008
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn670
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Role of symmetric dimethylarginine in vascular damage by increasing ROS via store-operated calcium influx in monocytes
1 Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Gent 2 Basic Medical Sciences-Physiology Group, Gent University, Gent, Belgium
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Raymond Vanholder, Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Gent, De Pintelaan 185, 0K12IA, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Tel: +32-9-332-45-25; Fax: +32-9-332-45-99; E-mail: Raymond.Vanholder{at}UGent.be
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Background. The guanidines asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a marker of endothelial dysfunction, and its counterpart symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), considered inert, are accumulated in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The present study evaluates their effect on monocyte function, since previous data demonstrated leukocyte activation by other guanidino compounds.
Methods. The effect of ADMA and SDMA on reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in human whole blood at baseline and after N-formyl–methionine–leucine–phenylalanine (fMLP) stimulation was evaluated. By using the fluorescent probe Fluo3-AM, the role of changes in monocytic cytoplasmic calcium ([Ca2+]i) was studied. Thapsigargin, and removal followed by addition of extracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+ex), was used to investigate the contribution of store-operated Ca2+-channels (SOCs). SKF96365 was used as a selective inhibitor of the SOCs. A pharmacologic intervention with captopril, known to affect Ca2+ influx, was tested.
Results. SDMA enhanced ROS production in fMLP-stimulated monocytes using heparinized blood, and this effect was abolished in EDTA-anticoagulated blood. In the presence of SDMA, an increased Ca2+ entry from the extracellular milieu resulted in an elevated amplitude of the peak [Ca2+]i change triggered by fMLP. None of these effects were seen with ADMA. Depletion of the intracellular stores with thapsigargin in the absence of Ca2+ex, followed by re-addition of Ca2+ex triggered a significantly larger Ca2+ entry after SDMA treatment versus saline. This effect was prevented with SKF96365, as was the SDMA-enhanced oxidative burst after fMLP. Pre-incubation with captopril also reduced the increased ROS production seen with SDMA.
Conclusions. SDMA, a uraemic retention solute considered inert, stimulates ROS production of monocytes by acting on Ca2+ entry via SOCs. This pro-inflammatory effect may trigger vascular pathology and may be involved in altering the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in CKD.
Keywords: calcium; chronic kidney disease; guanidines; leukocytes; reactive oxygen species
Authors equally contributed to the manuscript.
Received for publication: 12. 9.08
Accepted in revised form: 6.11.08
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